Growing up in northern Wisconsin, it was very common to be bitten by ticks every summer. Not as plentiful as mosquitoes, but very common.
Typically, one would just pick the tick off and burn it with a match to kill it. (Why this treatment idk, it's just what we did.)
Never had a bullseye rash. Never felt I was just going to take my chances and play Russian roulette with my life either.
As an analogy, West Nile and malria supposedly are transmitted by mosquitoes, but I do not run off to the doctor everytime I get a mosquito bite. Just swat/kill it and move on. That's what it's like with ticks.
With Gates' franken-mosquitoes maybe that will need to change.
I'm not sure if I had even heard of Lyme until I was in my thirties - late 90s.
Now I keep a stash of doxy, hcq, and ivermectin in my medicine cabinet.
My saving grace was that I had the very typical bullseye rash where I was bitten. There was no itching or soreness of any kind. I could have easily missed it since it was on the back of my calf almost to my knee. I knew enough to check myself over good any time I was out in the woods. Had doxy on hand and started it immediately. The ozone therapy I had a colleague do. I was in his office the next day after I noted the rash. We knew a bit more about Lyme by the time I was tick assaulted so I knew what I was dealing with. Many such as yourself, were not as lucky. Who knew. Glad you are doing better though. Hadn't heard of using Ivermectin for treatment. Thanks for tip.
Thanks. Glad you caught yours early. 🙂
Growing up in northern Wisconsin, it was very common to be bitten by ticks every summer. Not as plentiful as mosquitoes, but very common.
Typically, one would just pick the tick off and burn it with a match to kill it. (Why this treatment idk, it's just what we did.)
Never had a bullseye rash. Never felt I was just going to take my chances and play Russian roulette with my life either.
As an analogy, West Nile and malria supposedly are transmitted by mosquitoes, but I do not run off to the doctor everytime I get a mosquito bite. Just swat/kill it and move on. That's what it's like with ticks.
With Gates' franken-mosquitoes maybe that will need to change.
I'm not sure if I had even heard of Lyme until I was in my thirties - late 90s.
Now I keep a stash of doxy, hcq, and ivermectin in my medicine cabinet.
Take care, fren.
My saving grace was that I had the very typical bullseye rash where I was bitten. There was no itching or soreness of any kind. I could have easily missed it since it was on the back of my calf almost to my knee. I knew enough to check myself over good any time I was out in the woods. Had doxy on hand and started it immediately. The ozone therapy I had a colleague do. I was in his office the next day after I noted the rash. We knew a bit more about Lyme by the time I was tick assaulted so I knew what I was dealing with. Many such as yourself, were not as lucky. Who knew. Glad you are doing better though. Hadn't heard of using Ivermectin for treatment. Thanks for tip.